Life After Stroke: Recovery, Roles and Lifestyle—2nd Edition
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 August 2026 | Viewed by 29
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Interests: stroke; neurorehabilitation; prevention; patient public involvement; health informatics
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Interests: endothelial function; physiology; exercise; athletic performance; exercise intervention; endothelial dysfunction; cardiac rehabilitation; rehabilitation; blood pressure; exercise testing
2. School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Building 45, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK
Interests: stroke rehabilitation
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Interests: stroke rehabilitation; health services research; older person rehabilitation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
While stroke affects individuals and their families physically, emotionally, cognitively and socially, people with stroke also remain at high risk of recurrent cardiovascular events and cognitive and functional decline in the longer-term. Few survive 5 years without hospital readmission.
Advances in acute stroke medicine have resulted in increased survival rates, making it ever more pertinent to turn our attention to survivorship and life after stroke. Here, ongoing challenges persist across four intersecting domains: health concerns, limitations in daily activities, adaptation and overall well-being and deficiencies in information and support, as outlined in the European Stroke Burden Report. These difficulties lead to significant disability-related healthcare costs, along with additional productivity losses.
Life after stroke is a key pillar in the Stroke Action Plan for Europe 2030, recognising that acute care and rehabilitation are often only the start. Managing life after stroke for individuals and their families is complex. Returning home after stroke is a time of great uncertainty, with many people and their families using trial and error in everyday activities to co-construct a new life after stroke. Many unmet needs are revealed at this time, notably in the social and emotional domains. The fragmentation of support services or a lack of access is common despite wide-ranging, complex, ongoing or changing needs. Family members often unwittingly become carers, often without adequate training or support. Relationships, employment, and finances are frequently under strain. Influential structural factors can include access to health services, employment possibilities, information, welfare practices and policies and social discourses.
In this second edition of this Special Issue of Healthcare, we are pleased to invite you to submit original research articles and review articles addressing aspects of life after stroke.
This Special Issue will improve the lived experience of stroke survivors by providing insights and evidence to guide clinicians, service providers, service funders and researchers on how to best support individuals and their families after stroke to stay well, participate in family and social roles, and minimise stroke-related activity limitations.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of interventions that support people’s health, wellness and societal participation in life after stroke;
- Empirical studies addressing outcomes relevant to life after stroke;
- Qualitative studies providing novel insights into life after stroke;
- Psychometric studies measuring the psychometric characteristics of assessment tools for life after stroke;
- Health economic studies related to life after stroke.
In special circumstances, opinion pieces may be considered.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Olive Lennon
Dr. James A. Faulkner
Dr. Louise Johnson
Prof. Frances Horgan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- life after stroke
- health and wellness
- return to work
- social roles
- identity
- unmet needs
- societal participation
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